Nothing is more entertaining than watching the mares and ponies and all of the shenanigans that go into their herd dynamics. The Pony...

Today was a de-worming day. I’ve posted in the past our approach to worming. We mix it in with their soaked feed in their feedbags then...

This post was written by Jason and on his own blog. It is so appropriate in regards to our daily lives on the farm that I felt we should...

Sometimes when we are feeding the horses there is a stray horse or two missing from the line-up. Usually they quickly realize that they...

Post by Jason As some of you know, I lost my father a long time ago. The memories of everything surrounding his death are seared into my...

As most of you know my father passed away in the early hours of the morning on August 6th. He lost his battle with cancer all too...

Melissa’s dad passed away a few minutes after midnight this morning. Horse chores and horse care will continue on normally but our focus...

I’ve considered off and on posting about life in general lately. For any number of reasons I’ve kept this blog mostly farm related but...

Thanks to lots and lots of practice dealing with aging equipment and farm infrastructure I have of necessity become a pretty handy guy...

Things did not get off to their usual start this morning. As always during the summer we start very early. As the sun is rising we are...

We are pretty excited that we have a (very distant) connection to the Olympic Games right now. The first equestrian sport at the London...

After my day of wildlife encounters a couple of days ago Jason and I wound up re-hashing the same discussion we’ve had several times. It...

Yesterday started in the same manner as it always does with a large group of deer grazing along the driveway. There is at least one set...

(post by Jason) They say that when you write or speak everything you say is biased based on your own previous assumptions and...

(Post by Jason) I’ve got one more post in me dealing with drought and then I promise we’ll move forward onto other topics of interest....

As Melissa mentioned in her last post we have finally had some significant rainfall, though not nearly enough to break the drought. We...

We are finally getting a bit of cooperation from Mother Nature. We, along with many of our friends and neighbors, had been doing all we...

I saw this topic being discussed on another horse forum and I thought it was funny. How would your horse rate you at your annual review?...

The most exciting thing that happened this weekend was the rain that finally found its way to our farm. At least the dust will settle...

I don’t even need to explain the title of this post to the horse people, but for the non horse people it means we all survived another...